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Thursday, September 05, 2013

The Hill:
A leading health policy research organization reported “lower than
expected” premiums for ObamaCare’s new insurance exchanges in a major study released Thursday.
The nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation compiled premium data from
the new marketplaces in the 17 states where it is fully available and
released a variety of figures showing how much consumers will pay if
they choose to purchase coverage individually.

The study is
among the first to show in detail what a variety of exchange-based
health plans will cost people of different ages and incomes under
ObamaCare — a major source of debate between supporters and opponents of
the law.

This exposes as bullshit a report by the Wisconsin Commissioner of
Insurance that rates would skyrocket under the Obamacare exchanges. The
report was already on shaky ground, credibility-wise, and now that ground has collapsed under it.

You’ve got to wonder why the Walker administration would lie about
the exchanges. After all, the changes are going through whether they
like it or not and all their lies would’ve been exposed as early as
January 3 — that is, if the Kaiser study hadn’t exposed them now. Was it
to drum up support for the repeal effort? If so, Walker’s backing the
losing horse to the bitter end, because repeal — or defunding, for that
matter — is just never going to happen.

Whatever the reason, Walker starts off his reelection campaign by
dropping a great big turd of a lie on the middle of his desk. Democrats
would be wise to exploit the living hell out of it.